Why not?
Besides keeping you up to date on what the “lickspittles” at ATF and FBI are doing, Dutchman6 has a word to the wise.
Like this…
I have a question. “There’s always some dumb sonofabitch that don’t know me and ain’t smart enough to take the time to ask around.”
CNN caption: “Brown Safe created this $6,500 custom-designed safe for a customer who needed to protect piles of gold bars, jewelry and cash.”Booming business of fear: Sales of safes soar.
I have a question: How long will your safe protect valuables when a home-invasion gang is holding a pistol to your two-year-old daughter’s head? There’s a lot of guys who have some gold or silver tucked away on the top shelf of their gun safes. That’s fine. But what I am questioning here is the belief that a safe — and a safe alone, absent firearms and the will to use them — can protect your valuables from predators. Even if it is a break-in while you are not there, they will discover the safe, conclude it has valuables, and come back later with a better plan and a bigger crew when you are home to open it for them and available for a little friendly persuasion.
There is a man up in Winston County I know who once had a meth addict try to rob his house about ten years ago. The meth addict did not survive the experience. He regretted having to kill the man, but observed that the predator’s death had netted some benefits. “Bought me a heap of peace and quiet,” he told me. I pointed out that he still carried, even when he was on his own property. “Well,” he explained, “there’s always some dumb sonofabitch that don’t know me and ain’t smart enough to take the time to ask around.”
Safes are fine, I suppose. Vigilance, ability and a neighborhood defense plan are better. Building a reputation for those things doesn’t hurt either.
See what I’m sayin’?
